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President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday in Washington. The president plans to visit the Harrisburg area Wednesday.

Details emerge on President Trump's visit to Harrisburg

President Donald Trump will visit the Pennsylania Air National Guard base in the Harrisburg area to promote his tax plan Wednesday.

The Associated Press reported that Trump is expected to say the typical American household would get “a $4,000 pay raise” from facets of the planned legislation that would cut the corporate tax rate and end the current U.S. practice of taxing corporations’ foreign earnings, according to part of the speech released by the White House.

Economists disagree on just how much individuals benefit from corporate tax breaks, but even Trump's own economic advisers have said that the $4,000 benefit he plans to highlight would only materialize over eight years. On an annual basis, it's closer to $500.

About 1,000 people have been invited to attend the event at the guard's base at Harrisburg International Airport in Lower Swatara Township.

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Those invited include a large contingent of truckers who would be major beneficiaries of the president's tax reform plan, a senior White House official said. Many truck drivers are small business owners.

Trump is expected to tell the story of a family-owned Pennsylvania trucking company and how it would be impacted by the elimination of the estate tax as the owner readies passing the business on to family members.

Commissioners from Dauphin, Lancaster, York and Lebanon counties plus many members of the state legislature are expected to be in attendance. In addition, representatives from American Trucking Associations, Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association, the Pennsylvania chapter of the National Federation of Independent Business and other businesses are slated to attend.

U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey, a Republican, and U.S. Sen. Bob Casey Jr., a Democrat, have been invited to attend.

Trump is expected to mention a number of Pennsylvania residents in his speech.

“Pennsylvania voted for change and that is why we are going there,” the official said, adding the visit is for the forgotten men and women around the country to let them know they are not forgotten anymore.

Republicans have been making the rounds promoting major changes to the U.S. tax code.

U.S. Rep. Pat Meehan of Delaware County, who represents part of Berks County, touted the plan last month to members of the Greater Reading Chamber of Commerce & Economic Development Corporation.

The plan simplifies the tax code. Instead of seven tax brackets, there would be three at 12 percent, 25 percent and 30 percent.

The child tax credit would be expanded.

The standard deduction would be roughly doubled. Individuals would pay no federal income tax on the first $12,000 earned and that is $24,000 for couples.

The plan encourages businesses to do business in the United States, the official said, and it empowers businesses to buy equipment needed to grow.

Trump won Pennsylvania on his way to the White House. He is the first Republican presidential candidate to win the Keystone State since George H.W. Bush in 1988.